Firefox Doubles Its Browser Market
Share – Netscape Flounders
The IT Productivity Center (www.itproductivity.org)
released Janco’s April Browser Market Share Study. The IT
Productivity Center also has its Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Kit and IT
Service Management Template featured on this standard setting portal.
Janco’s second quarter 2005 Browser Market
Share Study finds that Firefox has doubled its market share. Victor
Janulaitis, the CEO of Janco said, “In less than three months Firefox
has grabbed over 10% of the browser market. In addition, based on
conversations with a number of industry sources and Janco’s projections,
we feel that within the next quarter Firefox could have up to 25% of the
browser market.”
The study also found that Netscape’s Version
8 (Beta) has had very limited success. “If the trend continues Netscape will be
less than a footnote as a browser”, said Janulaitis. He also added that
individuals who have tried both the new Netscape and Firefox almost all
chose Firefox.
Browser ranking and market share results
from the Browser Market Share Study as of April 26, 2005 are:
|
|
Apr-05 |
Jan-05 |
Net Change |
|
Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
|
Internet Explorer |
1 |
83.07% |
1 |
84.85% |
|
-1.78% |
|
Firefox |
2 |
10.28% |
3 |
4.23% |
1 |
6.05% |
|
Mozilla |
3 |
3.81% |
2 |
4.48% |
-1 |
-0.66% |
|
Netscape |
4 |
0.92% |
4 |
3.03% |
|
-2.11% |
|
AOL |
5 |
0.85% |
5 |
2.20% |
|
-1.35% |
|
MSN |
6 |
0.67% |
6 |
0.58% |
|
0.09% |
|
Opera |
7 |
0.41% |
7 |
0.34% |
|
0.07% |
|
Total |
|
99.61% |
|
99.37% |
|
0.08% |
Survey findings and conclusions include:
-
Firefox is challenging Microsoft like no
other competitor has done in quite some time.
-
Firefox and Mozilla have a combined
market share of over 14%.
-
Attacks on browsers are moving many
users to use the automatic update feature to get the latest browser
versions.
-
A significant number of users are now
looking to solutions other than Microsoft – thus Firefox looks to
gain even more market share.
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